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  1. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    I never claimed a new sport was created in 1895 (though they did extensively reform the rules pretty quickly). . . But you know what was created in 1895; a new organisation which still exists to this day now known as the Rugby Football League.
  2. The Great Dane

    New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

    I'm not saying they'd beat the All Blacks by 50 every time or whatever other nonsense, but you have to admit that the history of international RU would be extremely different if the NRL and AFL didn't exist and Australia was as committed to RU as e.g. NZ and ZA. Same is true of athletic talent...
  3. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Yeah sooner or later it'll end in tears.
  4. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    I don't know anybody relevant that made such a claim about the Broncos. Shit most of the people you're talking about (myself, PR, etc) had been arguing for a second Brisbane side for years, or even decades in other formats, before you showed up. Members don't necessarily equal active supporters...
  5. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    You had no trouble understanding what I was saying and the vast majority of the population don't even know that the RFL was originally known as the NRFU anyway, which leads to confusion.
  6. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    The connection you're trying to make to affirmative action is an insanely long bow and you've stretched it way beyond breaking point. Your analogy is grounded in the assumption that NRL sides from outside the "heartlands", namely Brisbane in your case, would inherently be inferior and that...
  7. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    The noise around town all suggests that PNG is well advanced and has nominal bipartisan support for the moment. The only thing that stops it now is a significant change in the political landscape before the election, which is almost inevitable, but still, only a madman would bet against them at...
  8. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    You say that, but it’s actively undermining our culture and social cohesiveness and rotting the brains of whole generations of our children. You may not care about it, but it cares about you.
  9. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    It’s proper insane to try and compare expansion of a professional sports league to affirmative action, especially when you clearly don’t understand what it actually is.
  10. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    It's the same organisation and some times it's easier and clearer just to refer to them as the RFL. It's okay to use the terms interchangeably so long as everybody understands what's being refered to.
  11. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    I don't disagree, I'm just trying to keep the discussion grounded and I like reading and talking about this stuff.
  12. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Yeah no shit. Soccer was first codified with a universal set of rules in 1863, and other rulesets had been around for decades before then. So soccer had been around for 30+ years before the RFL was formed and 50+ years before it made it to Australia proper in 1908. The first games that were...
  13. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Rugby's rules were codified before soccer and pre-universal codification rule sets spread around the globe to British colonies quicker than soccer and it's predecessors initially. It's actually posited by many sports historians that a large part of the reason why soccer has traditionally...
  14. The Great Dane

    The Game Jerseys, Logos, Mock Ups, Photos ANYTHING

    Take good care of it and it'll last you decades. Turn it inside out and cold wash it or set your machine to delicates/gentle or woollens if you've got a fancier washing machine. The most important things are to make sure you always wash it inside out and never ever put it in a dryer, always...
  15. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    There were plenty of opinion pieces and commentary from the time that were exactly that. Adding teams outside of Victoria was doomed to fail, the northern states were a wasteland, everybody already has a VFL team, it'll hurt the WAFL and SAFL, the WAFL and SARL are too popular for a VFL side to...
  16. The Great Dane

    2024 Jerseys, Sponsorship, Logos discussion etc

    More corporate slop for the mindless consumers. The club doesn't even have enough respect for their fans and customers to put any effort into it anymore.
  17. The Great Dane

    2024 Jerseys, Sponsorship, Logos discussion etc

    Not the club's fault that the NRL requires them to have an indigenous jersey TBF.
  18. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Why would I bother collating and presenting "evidence" for you when you have a repeated pattern of behaviour of rejecting any and all "evidence" that's presented to you out of hand? I've played that game before many times, it's a waste of time. The standard of "evidence" you hold others to is...
  19. The Great Dane

    18th club, whose next?

    Soccer went through a similar schism to rugby's in the 1800s as well. Sheffield Rules was an alternative version of soccer created in the 1850s in opposition to the FA's ruleset of the time. It lead to the creation of the Sheffield Football Association in the 1860s and was basically the same as...
  20. The Great Dane

    QLD doesn't need another team

    The Lions will always have serious competition in Brisbane and the AFL knows it. They also know that the Lions has it's market and that new NRL sides will do little to nothing to change that, in fact any new NRL sides in Qlds biggest competitors will be the other NRL sides and each new addition...

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